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Eight Random Facts About Nick Hodge

By Nick Hodge | April 16, 2008

Nick at Godley Head, Christchurch 

Fol­low­ing an old meme Stilgher­rian and fel­low Munge Brother, Uncle Dave Wal­lace dredged up and tagged me, and Frank Arrigo: god bless his Saint Kilda socks also tagged me. So here’s eight ran­dom facts about me.

The rules:

  1. Each player starts with eight ran­dom facts/habits about themselves.
  2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
  3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
  4. Don’t for­get to leave them a com­ment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
  1. I have a pen­chant for Carry On… movies. The UK of 1950s through to the mid 1970s fas­cin­ates me. A coun­try rebuild­ing itself without Empire, pre-European Union and Mrs Thatcher. The Carry On movies reflect many of the weird­ness of the time. Oh, and I also like music­als from the same era.
  2. Born in NSW as a Royal Aus­tralian Navy “brat”, I recall listen­ing to planes and heli­copters and accep­ted this exist­ence as nor­mal for all kids. Abruptly moved to coun­try South Aus­tralia to live on a farm; lived in a board­ing school in Adelaide. After work­ing and find­ing my soul mate in Adelaide all in 9 years; I moved back to NSW. Been in NSW for nearly 13 years.  Life is cir­cu­lar.
  3. After wear­ing braces my teeth for 18 months, and los­ing count how many baby teeth were manu­ally removed: now dent­ists can work on my teeth unaided by anaes­thet­ics. Con­gen­it­ally miss­ing a lower molar and do not have any wis­dom teeth. My facial nerves are pretty well hosed. How­ever, since Bell’s Palsy I can­not open my mouth wide as it locks up. Yawn­ing is painful.
  4. One of my encoun­ters with Crowded House: In Light Square, Adelaide buy­ing tick­ets to one of their first, very small con­certs. As my friends and I were leav­ing, the three Crow­dies were approach­ing the club for a sound check. I said “Hello Mark” to Nick Sey­mour. Paul Hester asked if I had met “Tim Finn?” (as he was look­ing at Neil). Laughs all around. I felt like such a doo­fus. (BTW: if you are not get­ting the humour in this, you are not a Fin­natic and I weep for you)
    Update: I was sit­ting across from Mark Sey­mour in a Qantas Club in Bris­bane. I gathered up the cour­age to tell him the story here. He LOL’d and thought that it was a funny story. Circle closed 
  5. In Janu­ary 1993, I went to Mac­world San Fran­cisco. My first (well, I did go to the Sey­bold Con­fer­ence in 1989 when John War­nock blinked in the font-format wars: and this was on our hon­ey­moon)  Mac­world where I con­nec­ted with Dave Winer. He was show­ing Fron­tier off in a room in the Mar­ri­ott rather than a full stand on the show floor. Here I met Dave, Doug Baron (and Julie) and saw Utah – a UI builder for Fron­tier that sorta kinda shipped. I may have been one of the alpha test­ers for a while, too. 3 years later whilst at Apple I cre­ated a con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem in Fron­tier for the Fair­fax 1996 Olympics web­site. Good days, good days.
  6. I dropped out of the South Aus­tralian Insti­tute of Tech­no­logy study­ing Account­ing after about a month of stud­ies. Epic fail. Thank­fully, I man­aged to work hard and com­plete a higher edu­ca­tion jour­ney by com­plet­ing an MBA. It only took me 10 years. Now I am fully qual­i­fied to do what I don’t want to do again. Strange.
  7. After a bad reac­tion to beer, I haven’t had alco­hol since June 2002. Well, apart from a small slip on the back of a pickup truck in Mex­ico in 2005. Real Mex­ican tequila tastes excel­lent. Tequila just may be my weakness.
  8. After leav­ing school, I was part of a band called Stranger than Fic­tion. After drop­ping out of Account­ing (See #6 above), I decided that learn­ing Audio engin­eer­ing may be a good thing to do. Drop­ping out again after 6 months, as I found Avril. It was way worth it :-)

 

Next 8 Victims

  1. http://twitter.com/dswaters
  2. http://twitter.com/rog42
  3. http://twitter.com/ang
  4. http://twitter.com/aeoth
  5. http://twitter.com/willhughes
  6. http://twitter.com/steven_noble
  7. http://twitter.com/fifikins
  8. http://twitter.com/lu_lu 

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2 Responses to “Eight Random Facts About Nick Hodge”

  1. Fiona Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    Done! http://www.fifikins.net/index.php/2008/04/17/8-random-facts/ Next will be 8 ran­dom lies if I get sent it again though ;-)

  2. Ms Fifikins » Blog Archive » 8 random facts Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    […] I have pub­lished 100 ran­dom facts about fifikins, but everyone’s favour­ite pro­fes­sional geek, Nick Hodge seems to think I can come up with 8 more! And I was told off for not tag­ging cer­tain people, I can […]

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